WordPress now does advertising…

For all you self-hosted wordpress owners
it’s business as usual.
Ignore the ad and this post.

Ad for WordPress.com

WordPress.com Pricing

…and has a per month billed yearly
price sticker attached to it

31% of the web uses WordPress and has never seen an ad for it, nor has any user ever had to pay for using the world’s most substantial and reliable CMS. An open source marvel built and maintained by hundreds of thousands of developers. Developers and users brought weight and meaning to what became known as open source.

A home and island of reason and restraint in an comparably strange world

An icon of independence, WordPress has contributed to the continuation of 17. Century’s enlightenment onto today. While new systems like Squarespace surpasses WordPress ugly user interface the new wordpress.com offer is tempting with an all in one package including the server and domain costs for new users.